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To: longnshort who wrote (19450)	9/6/2005 6:34:38 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) of 20773

School buses still lined up after the hurricane newsimg.bbc.co.uk After flooding in 1995, the existing system was improved. However, the sums were relatively small. About $500m was spent over the next 10 years. From 2003 onwards, the Bush administration cut funds amid charges from the Army Corps of Engineers that the money was transferred to Iraq instead. The latest annual budget was cut from $36.5m to $10.4m. Lt General Carl Strock, the Army Corps of Engineers commander, admitted that there was a collective mindset - that New Orleans would not be hit. Washington rolled the dice, he said. --- smart, because $36.5m would anyway had been far from enough to improve anything but inspections, another $26m saved.

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